This weekend LSU will face off against Alabama in the biggest rivalry of our football season, and things aren’t looking good in the rankings. 
While Southeastern Conference rankings put Alabama 10 places ahead of LSU, a new ranking is out that has us even further behind.
Trojan’s Sexual Health Report Card for 2012 put LSU at No. 37 in its annual ranking of the sexual resources and information available to students at 141 major universities across the country.
Tulane, coming in at No. 26 is the only Louisiana university on the top half of the ranks, as ULL, ULM and Louisiana Tech rank well past No. 120.  
And Alabama, while not on top, is on the verge of breaking the top 20. 
Our hardworking students in organizations such as VOX at LSU and Spectrum are undoubtedly keeping us afloat with free condoms and information, but the University needs to make more of an effort to educate its students on sexual health. 
LSU should take a few notes from Yale, which in 2006, became the first and only school to ever receive a perfect score from Trojan. 
Toting its annual Sex Week, a 10-day sexual education program that is designed to get students involved through interactive and creative programs, Yale has been exploring sexuality with its students and seeing great results. 
Much more than preaching consent and handing out free condoms, the program explores sex, love, intimacy and relationships by discovering how sexuality is perceived in America and helping students handle these issues in their own lives. 
Meanwhile, LSU freshmen take mandatory substance and sexual abuse online workshops.
Sure, we have Free Condom Fridays in Free Speech Plaza thanks to VOX at LSU, but are students really going to accept the contraceptives when angry pastors are shouting that they are going to hell for having safe sex?
In order for LSU to make any headway in sexual health for its students, it is important that we adopt a positive and inclusive sexual education program. 
Sex positive vlogger Laci Green describes the sex positive movement as being about informed choice. This means that any LSU student can be sex positive and be sexually active or choose to remain celibate. 
“Sexuality and sexual health is an integral part of being human and relating with others. A healthy, shameless sex life is the right of all persons irrespective of their age, gender, or state of health,” Green says on her Sex+ Youtube channel. 
In an article for Frisky Magazine, sex positive advocate Rachel White outlines the major beliefs of her fellow advocates. 
She stresses it isn’t necessary to be overly sexually active or sexually active at all — both having sex and not having sex can be healthy personal decisions. 
“Screw any pressure to do whatever you feel like you have to do in order to be a sex positive person. It’s all about finding out what works for you,” she wrote.
I am a huge proponent for the sex positive movement, as I believe education on how your body functions sexually will cause you to make positive and healthy choices for yourself and in your sex life. 
LSU students would benefit from a school that refuses to settle for beating Alabama on the football field and works to improve all of its rankings — especially those that affect student health. 
Jana King is a 19-year-old women’s and gender studies sophomore from Ponchatoula, La.